- HD 1080
- Runtime: 117m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: Australia, China
- Director: Bruce Beresford
- Stars: Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo, Wen Bin Huang, Joan Chen, Bruce Greenwood
- keywords: dance, dancer, village, ballet dancer, rags to riches, promise, ballet, communism
- Production_studio: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
- Slogan: Before you can fly, you have to be free.
- providers: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Peacock Premium Plus
- The Mao’s Last Dancer is featured in the top rankings of 2009
- #45 in Top Romance Movies of 2009
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
